Last laugh …

… Gone but Now Appreciated by Jonathan Leaf - City Journal. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Once scorned by museums and collectors, the work of these illustrators has recently gained enormously in cachet and value. Indeed, the shift has been so profound that even that perpetual promoter of modernism, New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl, concedes that Rockwell is “terrific,” adding “it’s become too tedious to pretend that he isn’t.”